What to do
Note to teacher: This Internal Assessment Activity may be used unchanged, or can be adapted by the teacher, ensuring that all requirements of the Achievement Standard are still met. This textbox should be removed prior to sharing the activity with your students.
Note to teacher: This Internal Assessment Activity may be used unchanged, or can be adapted by the teacher, ensuring that all requirements of the Achievement Standard are still met. This textbox should be removed prior to sharing the activity with your students.
You will participate in a 2-4 minute performance from Shudder by Pip Hall (2003) to explore theatre Aotearoa.
Through taking this performance from page to stage, you will learn how to engage with a range of drama components to connect with an audience. You will demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of theatre Aotearoa.
You will learn that the function of drama is about how you use drama to communicate the main ideas or key message from a play, which can heal, educate, entertain, or transform society. You will reflect on how your performance promotes the function of drama by possibly healing, educating, entertaining, or transforming society. You will also reflect on the relationship between your performance and a particular community of people.
Talk to your kaiako if you want to explore another play that includes mātauranga Māori to show your learning.
Read the script
Read the script and focus on the cultural, social, and historical contexts of the play. Questions to consider:
- Who is telling the story?
- Whom do they represent?
- Is this a well-known story or perspective?
- What are the main themes and ideas in the play?
- How does the play communicate these themes and ideas to an audience?
- When was this play first performed?
This will help you understand what relationship audiences may have had with the play in the place and time that it was first written and performed, and how these contexts might influence audience responses to the play here and now.
During this process how will you demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa?
You could note your reflections down, record an activity and reflection discussion, or brainstorm ideas to share. Keep evidence of your mahi — your thoughts and reflections — as you go.
Explore through drama
Your group will further explore the characters, the situation they find themselves in at key moments, the themes, and key messages in the text. Questions to consider:
- How can you emphasise these ideas in your performance?
- What activities could you include to help you to develop a character or set the scene, create a mood, or deepen understanding of an idea that is important?
Consider how you will demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa. You could note these discussions down, record a class discussion or activity, or brainstorm ideas to share. Keep evidence of your mahi — thoughts and reflections — as you go.
Select and perform
As a group you will select, rehearse, and perform 2-4 minutes from Shudder to an audience.
Reflection:
You will provide an individual statement of reflection, this should include:
- how you demonstrated manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa
- describing and explaining how your use of drama components helped to show the main ideas of Shudder and create a performance that connects with the audience
- describing and explaining how the choices you made enhanced the context and main ideas, and how those choices promoted the play’s ability to heal, educate, entertain, or transform your audience
- reflecting on what you have learnt about the function of drama to heal, educate, entertain, or transform society from performing a role in Shudder:
- How would this situation affect you?
- How is this drama relevant to your life and your own experiences?
- Could your personal experience be relevant to your audience’s experience of your performance?
- How did this drama help you to explore and understand real-world events?
- What relationship does your performance have to your community today?
The statement of reflection can be selected from your collected reflections throughout the exploration process. This could be written, verbal, or a presentation. It will need to be recorded if it is not written.
You will participate in a 2-4 minute performance from Shudder by Pip Hall (2003) to explore theatre Aotearoa.
Through taking this performance from page to stage, you will learn how to engage with a range of drama components to connect with an audience. You will demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of theatre Aotearoa.
You will learn that the function of drama is about how you use drama to communicate the main ideas or key message from a play, which can heal, educate, entertain, or transform society. You will reflect on how your performance promotes the function of drama by possibly healing, educating, entertaining, or transforming society. You will also reflect on the relationship between your performance and a particular community of people.
Talk to your kaiako if you want to explore another play that includes mātauranga Māori to show your learning.
Read the script
Read the script and focus on the cultural, social, and historical contexts of the play. Questions to consider:
- Who is telling the story?
- Whom do they represent?
- Is this a well-known story or perspective?
- What are the main themes and ideas in the play?
- How does the play communicate these themes and ideas to an audience?
- When was this play first performed?
This will help you understand what relationship audiences may have had with the play in the place and time that it was first written and performed, and how these contexts might influence audience responses to the play here and now.
During this process how will you demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa?
You could note your reflections down, record an activity and reflection discussion, or brainstorm ideas to share. Keep evidence of your mahi — your thoughts and reflections — as you go.
Explore through drama
Your group will further explore the characters, the situation they find themselves in at key moments, the themes, and key messages in the text. Questions to consider:
- How can you emphasise these ideas in your performance?
- What activities could you include to help you to develop a character or set the scene, create a mood, or deepen understanding of an idea that is important?
Consider how you will demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa. You could note these discussions down, record a class discussion or activity, or brainstorm ideas to share. Keep evidence of your mahi — thoughts and reflections — as you go.
Select and perform
As a group you will select, rehearse, and perform 2-4 minutes from Shudder to an audience.
Reflection:
You will provide an individual statement of reflection, this should include:
- how you demonstrated manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa
- describing and explaining how your use of drama components helped to show the main ideas of Shudder and create a performance that connects with the audience
- describing and explaining how the choices you made enhanced the context and main ideas, and how those choices promoted the play’s ability to heal, educate, entertain, or transform your audience
- reflecting on what you have learnt about the function of drama to heal, educate, entertain, or transform society from performing a role in Shudder:
- How would this situation affect you?
- How is this drama relevant to your life and your own experiences?
- Could your personal experience be relevant to your audience’s experience of your performance?
- How did this drama help you to explore and understand real-world events?
- What relationship does your performance have to your community today?
The statement of reflection can be selected from your collected reflections throughout the exploration process. This could be written, verbal, or a presentation. It will need to be recorded if it is not written.
How to present your learning
You are going to show your learning through performance and reflection.
You will collect your reflections over time throughout the process. After your performance, you can collate your reflections into your statement of reflection for your assessment submission. The statement of reflection can be up to 700 words or 4 minutes depending on the format of your submission.
The performance needs to be within a 2-4 minute timeframe. Time and word limits for the statement of reflection are:
- a written reflection (up to 700 words)
or
- a recorded response or self-tape on video (up to 4 mins).
Working within the time and word limits, you could produce a presentation that combines written, visual, verbal, or recorded responses. Your evidence may be presented in a range of forms, including:
- annotated visual information
- oral presentation
- physical demonstration accompanied by verbal or written explanation
- written information
- digital formats
- audio and visual recordings.
You are going to show your learning through performance and reflection.
You will collect your reflections over time throughout the process. After your performance, you can collate your reflections into your statement of reflection for your assessment submission. The statement of reflection can be up to 700 words or 4 minutes depending on the format of your submission.
The performance needs to be within a 2-4 minute timeframe. Time and word limits for the statement of reflection are:
- a written reflection (up to 700 words)
or
- a recorded response or self-tape on video (up to 4 mins).
Working within the time and word limits, you could produce a presentation that combines written, visual, verbal, or recorded responses. Your evidence may be presented in a range of forms, including:
- annotated visual information
- oral presentation
- physical demonstration accompanied by verbal or written explanation
- written information
- digital formats
- audio and visual recordings.
Timeframe
This assessment will take place over approximately four weeks and includes:
- a number of workshops to develop your characters and find effective ways to communicate the message of the play in your selected 2-4 minute performance
- time to refine your selection of drama components to connect with an audience
- self and peer feedback about the messages an audience might take from your performance, and your role.
Your teacher will provide details for:
- when you need to have learned your lines
- the date, time, and venue of your performance
- the submission date of your reflections.
This assessment will take place over approximately four weeks and includes:
- a number of workshops to develop your characters and find effective ways to communicate the message of the play in your selected 2-4 minute performance
- time to refine your selection of drama components to connect with an audience
- self and peer feedback about the messages an audience might take from your performance, and your role.
Your teacher will provide details for:
- when you need to have learned your lines
- the date, time, and venue of your performance
- the submission date of your reflections.
Getting started
Your kaiako will supply you with at least one other theatre Aotearoa context as part of your learning before you start your exploration of Shudder. You may look at examples of different theatre forms within theatre Aotearoa.
You will need to understand manaakitanga and how you can demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa. Your kaiako will help explain what this looks like and be sure to record some examples as you go through the process.
You will need to understand how drama components work together to create a connection with an audience to communicate the message of a scene or play.
You will need to understand how drama can heal, educate, entertain, or transform society.
To support you to understand the play Shudder and how it can be performed, you could:
- research Rūaumoko and the pūrākau that explains his part in earthquakes from a te ao Māori perspective:
- How does this inform possible ideas in the play?
- How could this inform the way the play is presented?
- How could this affect the viewer of this play?
- research into the Christchurch and Napier earthquakes:
- When did these events occur?
- How did people react to these earthquakes and why?
- If people have been in an earthquake and are watching this play, how might they feel?
Your kaiako will supply you with at least one other theatre Aotearoa context as part of your learning before you start your exploration of Shudder. You may look at examples of different theatre forms within theatre Aotearoa.
You will need to understand manaakitanga and how you can demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa. Your kaiako will help explain what this looks like and be sure to record some examples as you go through the process.
You will need to understand how drama components work together to create a connection with an audience to communicate the message of a scene or play.
You will need to understand how drama can heal, educate, entertain, or transform society.
To support you to understand the play Shudder and how it can be performed, you could:
- research Rūaumoko and the pūrākau that explains his part in earthquakes from a te ao Māori perspective:
- How does this inform possible ideas in the play?
- How could this inform the way the play is presented?
- How could this affect the viewer of this play?
- research into the Christchurch and Napier earthquakes:
- When did these events occur?
- How did people react to these earthquakes and why?
- If people have been in an earthquake and are watching this play, how might they feel?
What to do
Note to teacher: This Internal Assessment Activity may be used unchanged, or can be adapted by the teacher, ensuring that all requirements of the Achievement Standard are still met. This textbox should be removed prior to sharing the activity with your students.
Note to teacher: This Internal Assessment Activity may be used unchanged, or can be adapted by the teacher, ensuring that all requirements of the Achievement Standard are still met. This textbox should be removed prior to sharing the activity with your students.
You will participate in a 2-4 minute performance from Shudder by Pip Hall (2003) to explore theatre Aotearoa.
Through taking this performance from page to stage, you will learn how to engage with a range of drama components to connect with an audience. You will demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of theatre Aotearoa.
You will learn that the function of drama is about how you use drama to communicate the main ideas or key message from a play, which can heal, educate, entertain, or transform society. You will reflect on how your performance promotes the function of drama by possibly healing, educating, entertaining, or transforming society. You will also reflect on the relationship between your performance and a particular community of people.
Talk to your kaiako if you want to explore another play that includes mātauranga Māori to show your learning.
Read the script
Read the script and focus on the cultural, social, and historical contexts of the play. Questions to consider:
- Who is telling the story?
- Whom do they represent?
- Is this a well-known story or perspective?
- What are the main themes and ideas in the play?
- How does the play communicate these themes and ideas to an audience?
- When was this play first performed?
This will help you understand what relationship audiences may have had with the play in the place and time that it was first written and performed, and how these contexts might influence audience responses to the play here and now.
During this process how will you demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa?
You could note your reflections down, record an activity and reflection discussion, or brainstorm ideas to share. Keep evidence of your mahi — your thoughts and reflections — as you go.
Explore through drama
Your group will further explore the characters, the situation they find themselves in at key moments, the themes, and key messages in the text. Questions to consider:
- How can you emphasise these ideas in your performance?
- What activities could you include to help you to develop a character or set the scene, create a mood, or deepen understanding of an idea that is important?
Consider how you will demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa. You could note these discussions down, record a class discussion or activity, or brainstorm ideas to share. Keep evidence of your mahi — thoughts and reflections — as you go.
Select and perform
As a group you will select, rehearse, and perform 2-4 minutes from Shudder to an audience.
Reflection:
You will provide an individual statement of reflection, this should include:
- how you demonstrated manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa
- describing and explaining how your use of drama components helped to show the main ideas of Shudder and create a performance that connects with the audience
- describing and explaining how the choices you made enhanced the context and main ideas, and how those choices promoted the play’s ability to heal, educate, entertain, or transform your audience
- reflecting on what you have learnt about the function of drama to heal, educate, entertain, or transform society from performing a role in Shudder:
- How would this situation affect you?
- How is this drama relevant to your life and your own experiences?
- Could your personal experience be relevant to your audience’s experience of your performance?
- How did this drama help you to explore and understand real-world events?
- What relationship does your performance have to your community today?
The statement of reflection can be selected from your collected reflections throughout the exploration process. This could be written, verbal, or a presentation. It will need to be recorded if it is not written.
You will participate in a 2-4 minute performance from Shudder by Pip Hall (2003) to explore theatre Aotearoa.
Through taking this performance from page to stage, you will learn how to engage with a range of drama components to connect with an audience. You will demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of theatre Aotearoa.
You will learn that the function of drama is about how you use drama to communicate the main ideas or key message from a play, which can heal, educate, entertain, or transform society. You will reflect on how your performance promotes the function of drama by possibly healing, educating, entertaining, or transforming society. You will also reflect on the relationship between your performance and a particular community of people.
Talk to your kaiako if you want to explore another play that includes mātauranga Māori to show your learning.
Read the script
Read the script and focus on the cultural, social, and historical contexts of the play. Questions to consider:
- Who is telling the story?
- Whom do they represent?
- Is this a well-known story or perspective?
- What are the main themes and ideas in the play?
- How does the play communicate these themes and ideas to an audience?
- When was this play first performed?
This will help you understand what relationship audiences may have had with the play in the place and time that it was first written and performed, and how these contexts might influence audience responses to the play here and now.
During this process how will you demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa?
You could note your reflections down, record an activity and reflection discussion, or brainstorm ideas to share. Keep evidence of your mahi — your thoughts and reflections — as you go.
Explore through drama
Your group will further explore the characters, the situation they find themselves in at key moments, the themes, and key messages in the text. Questions to consider:
- How can you emphasise these ideas in your performance?
- What activities could you include to help you to develop a character or set the scene, create a mood, or deepen understanding of an idea that is important?
Consider how you will demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa. You could note these discussions down, record a class discussion or activity, or brainstorm ideas to share. Keep evidence of your mahi — thoughts and reflections — as you go.
Select and perform
As a group you will select, rehearse, and perform 2-4 minutes from Shudder to an audience.
Reflection:
You will provide an individual statement of reflection, this should include:
- how you demonstrated manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa
- describing and explaining how your use of drama components helped to show the main ideas of Shudder and create a performance that connects with the audience
- describing and explaining how the choices you made enhanced the context and main ideas, and how those choices promoted the play’s ability to heal, educate, entertain, or transform your audience
- reflecting on what you have learnt about the function of drama to heal, educate, entertain, or transform society from performing a role in Shudder:
- How would this situation affect you?
- How is this drama relevant to your life and your own experiences?
- Could your personal experience be relevant to your audience’s experience of your performance?
- How did this drama help you to explore and understand real-world events?
- What relationship does your performance have to your community today?
The statement of reflection can be selected from your collected reflections throughout the exploration process. This could be written, verbal, or a presentation. It will need to be recorded if it is not written.
How to present your learning
You are going to show your learning through performance and reflection.
You will collect your reflections over time throughout the process. After your performance, you can collate your reflections into your statement of reflection for your assessment submission. The statement of reflection can be up to 700 words or 4 minutes depending on the format of your submission.
The performance needs to be within a 2-4 minute timeframe. Time and word limits for the statement of reflection are:
- a written reflection (up to 700 words)
or
- a recorded response or self-tape on video (up to 4 mins).
Working within the time and word limits, you could produce a presentation that combines written, visual, verbal, or recorded responses. Your evidence may be presented in a range of forms, including:
- annotated visual information
- oral presentation
- physical demonstration accompanied by verbal or written explanation
- written information
- digital formats
- audio and visual recordings.
You are going to show your learning through performance and reflection.
You will collect your reflections over time throughout the process. After your performance, you can collate your reflections into your statement of reflection for your assessment submission. The statement of reflection can be up to 700 words or 4 minutes depending on the format of your submission.
The performance needs to be within a 2-4 minute timeframe. Time and word limits for the statement of reflection are:
- a written reflection (up to 700 words)
or
- a recorded response or self-tape on video (up to 4 mins).
Working within the time and word limits, you could produce a presentation that combines written, visual, verbal, or recorded responses. Your evidence may be presented in a range of forms, including:
- annotated visual information
- oral presentation
- physical demonstration accompanied by verbal or written explanation
- written information
- digital formats
- audio and visual recordings.
Timeframe
This assessment will take place over approximately four weeks and includes:
- a number of workshops to develop your characters and find effective ways to communicate the message of the play in your selected 2-4 minute performance
- time to refine your selection of drama components to connect with an audience
- self and peer feedback about the messages an audience might take from your performance, and your role.
Your teacher will provide details for:
- when you need to have learned your lines
- the date, time, and venue of your performance
- the submission date of your reflections.
This assessment will take place over approximately four weeks and includes:
- a number of workshops to develop your characters and find effective ways to communicate the message of the play in your selected 2-4 minute performance
- time to refine your selection of drama components to connect with an audience
- self and peer feedback about the messages an audience might take from your performance, and your role.
Your teacher will provide details for:
- when you need to have learned your lines
- the date, time, and venue of your performance
- the submission date of your reflections.
Getting started
Your kaiako will supply you with at least one other theatre Aotearoa context as part of your learning before you start your exploration of Shudder. You may look at examples of different theatre forms within theatre Aotearoa.
You will need to understand manaakitanga and how you can demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa. Your kaiako will help explain what this looks like and be sure to record some examples as you go through the process.
You will need to understand how drama components work together to create a connection with an audience to communicate the message of a scene or play.
You will need to understand how drama can heal, educate, entertain, or transform society.
To support you to understand the play Shudder and how it can be performed, you could:
- research Rūaumoko and the pūrākau that explains his part in earthquakes from a te ao Māori perspective:
- How does this inform possible ideas in the play?
- How could this inform the way the play is presented?
- How could this affect the viewer of this play?
- research into the Christchurch and Napier earthquakes:
- When did these events occur?
- How did people react to these earthquakes and why?
- If people have been in an earthquake and are watching this play, how might they feel?
Your kaiako will supply you with at least one other theatre Aotearoa context as part of your learning before you start your exploration of Shudder. You may look at examples of different theatre forms within theatre Aotearoa.
You will need to understand manaakitanga and how you can demonstrate manaakitanga in the context of exploring theatre Aotearoa. Your kaiako will help explain what this looks like and be sure to record some examples as you go through the process.
You will need to understand how drama components work together to create a connection with an audience to communicate the message of a scene or play.
You will need to understand how drama can heal, educate, entertain, or transform society.
To support you to understand the play Shudder and how it can be performed, you could:
- research Rūaumoko and the pūrākau that explains his part in earthquakes from a te ao Māori perspective:
- How does this inform possible ideas in the play?
- How could this inform the way the play is presented?
- How could this affect the viewer of this play?
- research into the Christchurch and Napier earthquakes:
- When did these events occur?
- How did people react to these earthquakes and why?
- If people have been in an earthquake and are watching this play, how might they feel?